Local Business and Professional Directory for Decorah Iowa
A Decorah Republic listing details subscriptions outside Winneshiek County to two dollars yearly in advance, rates for advertisers with business cards at five dollars, legal ads at legal rates, local ads ten cents per line, and five cents per additional insert. Includes optician services, physicians, osteopathic care, and attorneys with addresses, hours, and contact numbers. Also notes men and boys goods such as gent apparel and luggage with forty one years of square dealing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneshiek County
Canada
Mexico
Standard Telephones
In support of liberty and country we serve now
A patriotic editorial tone praises service to the nation and devotion to liberty. It lauds courage and sacrifice, notes public figures and German disapproval, and argues for loyalty to the United States amid war.
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America
Fred A. Earle
Newark News
Berlin
Germany
Wilson
Pope Benedict
Luxburg
Argentina
Bernsdorff
Congress
Mexico
United States
Teutonic
Otto H. Kahn
Kahn, Loeb & Co
New York
Harrisburg
Mr. Kahn
Soldiers to live in dugouts at Camp Dodge training
National army soldiers of the division will undergo field life in dugouts and trenches to mirror front line conditions for several days. A 600 to 700 yard trench system with barb wire and emplacements will be built and camouflage taught, start within days and finish before ground freezes. A French fortifications officer, wounded five times, shows resilience at Fort Sill.
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National Army
Ralph M. Stevens
School of Arms
Fort Sill
Okla
Mott Co. Fine Dress Goods and Trimmings Ad
MOTT and company advertise a full line of dry goods and notions with a specialty in dress goods and trims. Located at the corner of Water and Washington Streets in Decorah Iowa.
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Washington Sts
Decorah
Iowa
Wert Water St
Towa
Four Coupon Bonds Explain Temporary Certificates
A bond subscriber asks why new fours carry only four coupons. The bonds issued are temporary certificates and within two years they will be exchanged for permanent bonds, possibly at a higher interest rate.
War heroine Mrs. Stobart to lecture in Decorah
British war worker Mrs. St Clair Stobart, founder of the Woman's Convoy Corps, will lecture next Monday evening in Decorah under the Devorah Lyceum committee. Proceeds go to the Serbian Red Cross. tickets at Parman's Drug Store.
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St Clair Stobart
Samuel Boulton
Woman's
Royal Army Medical Corps
Belgium
France
Antwerp
Cherbourg
Serbia
Montenegro
Albania
Scutari
Food Conservation Campaign Promotes National Pledge Cards
Federal Food Administration in Burlington distributes five color membership cards for the National Food Pledge Campaign to housewives as a sign of cooperation. Cards are mailed with a kitchen card explaining food conservation. collectors are urged to return signed pledges by November 5 to Mrs. Elvie N. Logsdon, County Chairman.
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Burlington
J. F. Deems
Food
Food Conservation Army
Food Administration
Elvie N. Logsdon
Canned Peas Output Surges Under Food Administration
The 1917 output of canned peas reached nearly 10,000,000 cases of 24 tins, up from about 9,000,000 in 1915 and six and one half million in 1916. A surplus exists in medium and large sizes, with prices to wholesale trade from cents to 1.20 per dozen for medium grades, while prices are blamed on market extortion.
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The
Food Administration
Wheatless and Meatless Days Urged in Iowa
J F Deems Iowa federal food administrator designates Tuesday as meatless day and Wednesday as wheatless day with a statewide appeal for strict observance. Medge cards are mailed to hotels and restaurants and national food service carts mailed to prominent organizations for housewives signatures.
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Burlington
J. F. Deems
Lowa
Towa
Increased Postage Rates Warn Postal Customers
A 1917 notice outlines new war revenue act rates for letters and first class mail. Drop letters pay two cents after Nov 2 1917, postal cards two cents, and letters three cents per ounce or fraction prepaid. Printed post cards without writing stay at third class rates.
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Postal Service
War Revenue Act
Odd Penny Pricing Moves to Food Staples and Cigars
The Food Administration promotes odd penny pricing to restore profits on staples and counteract round price effects. Grocers may adjust prices to 5 to 14 cents in uneven nickels to sustain quality and package size. A cigar company adopts odd penny pricing to offset higher tobacco taxes and bolster revenue.
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the Food Administration
Cigar Corporation
Soil Survey Petition Planned By Fayette County Farm Bureau
Fayette County Farm Bureau votes to petition the U S Department of Agriculture and Iowa State College for a county wide soil survey. Work County Agent Combs estimates three years for study with later experimental plots and fertilizer guidance. A petition from about 200 farmers is needed to start the project.
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Fayette County Farm Bureau Association
Federal Department of Agriculture
Towa State College
Combs
Farm Bureau Association
Fourth Iowa Potato and Truck Growers Convention
The fourth annual Iowa Potato and Truck Growers association convention will be held in Davenport from November 26 to 28. Town market gardeners farmers and experts will discuss vegetable growing and marketing with leading national experts taking part. Final sessions occur at Pleasant Valley in the Davenport onion district.
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Iowa Potato and Truck Growers’ Association
Davenport
Vieasant Valley
Yankee Ingenuity Aids Ambulance Navigation in France
Robert Redfield Jr. of Chicago, home from months as a Red Cross ambulance driver, reports American wrist watches are used behind the front lines to guide ambulances to forward field hospitals. Readiness and exposure of illuminated dials assist drivers while lights are forbidden.
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France
Robert Redfield, Jr
Chicago
Red Cross
Redfield
Sioux City Observes Beefless Tuesday Citywide
About thirty thousand residents, nearly half the population, observed beefless Tuesday and saved six thousand pounds of beef. Hotels served fish and vegetables while beef veal lamb and mutton were removed from menus, aiming to feed an army of fifteen thousand for a day.
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Sioux City
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the Decorah Republic
A. K. Bailey & Son, Inc
West Waters
Acres
Ben Bear Block
Drs
Stabo & Campbell
Physicians and Surgeons
Decorah State Bank
Hoeg, M. D
Citizens Savings Bank
Urban & Urban
Osteopathic
Harriertews
Amr
Decorah Ave
Curtin's Addition
A. © Woodward, M. D
Anes
H. F. Barthell
Law and Sustice
National Bank
J. W. Currine
Bromley’s Shoe Store
West Water Street
W. M. Strand
Attorney At Law
E. P. Johnson Building
OOO
Lutheran Publishing House
L. Bnoer
Pire and Tornado Insurance
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard Phone
Ben Bearco
Clothing Wholesale
Wrath
LaFollette
Roosevelt
Hobby
Texas
Francisca Villa
Russia
Seattle
Buffalo, N. Y
Kaiser
Kaiser Wilhelm
Riga
Flanders
Haig
Free Trade Democrats
Thompson
U. Senator
Republica
Republican Party
Nicholas Romanoff
Russias
Automobile Clumber of Commerce
Nebraska
California
Kansas
South Dakota
Tefe
Brooklyn
Nehemiah
War Department
Washington
Pershing
Greece
Senate
Albert B. Fall
New Mexico
Fall
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Col
Robert Jones
Dr. Dernberg
Camp Dodge
K Il. Haugen
Metal Merchant
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
J. C. Beard
Soil Survey
Sioux City Hooverizes
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